Development Roadmap

Q1 2009

This is an initial release of the 1.x line, to be shortly deprecated into maintenance mode; we will still be tracking and addressing major / security-related bugs, and you are encouraged to browse our Bugzilla database fully.

Q3 2009

As of Q3 2009, development on L8X as a stand-alone application has been halted in favor of a refactoring of the L8X functionality into the PKP Web Application Library. The rationale for this approach is to provide direct integration with OJS and OCS, as well as functionality for the initial relase of OMP. Users can expect a major change to bring the UI in line with the rest of the PKP suite, while keeping much of the dynamic interface in 1.x.

Additional Use Cases

Copyediting: Author match between the name used in body of the text and name used in the citations, as per spelling and reference link between text and bibliography (author with no reference; reference with no link to body of the text);

Copyediting: Quotation checking, where a quote in the body of the text is checked against the web for accuracy, with candidates proposed for comparison and correction, as well as reference checking;

Plagiarism: Random check of not-quoted bits of text for matches and possible plagiarism.

Usability

Let users "lock" citations once they are in their final state. Locked citations won't be overwritten by parser or lookup results.

Introduce a "batch processing mode" for citation parsing/lookup

keep the application responsive while citation parsing is going on in the background

do citation parsing/lookup during off-hours (e.g. every night)

Document Parsing

Let users configure "content types" (document types) to improve parsing and reduce manual work for batches of similar documents

Citation Output

Implement citation output plug-ins for Chicago Manual of Style, American Medical Association, American Sociological Association and Council of Science Editors (see mails to pkp-support from Mark and John, 20/10/2009)

Apply reading tools to references within articles (provide additional information about cited works in RT sidebar)

Document Export

Additional XML schemas for export

Backporting to other Applications

Extend L8X functionality to OCS and OMP

Add citation support to Harvester

If a metadata element in Harvester looks like a citation, parse the citation and render it in HTML with COinS

use Harvester to retrieve additional citation meta-data that will be attached to the meta-data we already retrieve (i.e. every single harvester record may contain or point to additional citation records)

Additional Requirements

No new initial installation requirements

Maintain PHP4 compatibility for initial installation, new installation requirements (additional software, PHP>4) only for optional plug-ins - a notable example being the citation editor/parser/lookup which requires at least PHP5.0